quick-eyed, a.
Having a quick eye (see quick a. 20). Also fig.
| a 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca iv. iii, Care, counsel, Quick-eyed experience, and victory. 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. xli, The cheerfull children of the quick-ey'd Morn. 1727–46 Thomson Summer 253 The quick-eyed trout Or darting salmon. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 214 Brissot..was rather a sublime visionary than a quick-eyed politician. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 215 A quick-eyed, light-haired, slight-built woman. |